With the Republican race now moving on to Florida, Rudy Guiliani has to come out with a win here if he wants to stay in the race. Guiliani has all but ignored all of the previous Republican caucus' and focused on Florida. If he doesn't win there, he will most likely lose momentum, and thus, any donations to his campaign.
Certainly he can recover, but the chances are extremely slim, even with recent polls showing Rudy trailing even Ron Paul for 4th place.
But Rudy's starting to throw a little mud:
"John voted against the Bush tax cuts, I think on both occasions, and sided with the Democrats," Giuliani, the former New York mayor, said in a television interview. He has yet to win a contest and has staked his candidacy on a win in Florida on Jan. 29, and was sharpening his criticism of his rivals as the campaign came to him.
At a rally in New Port Richey, Giuliani assailed McCain for never running a government. "When you have that executive experience, you have to make decisions and decisions have consequences. ... Some of my opponents maybe don't have that same fervor and that same understanding," he said
Of course, Rudy won't tell you WHY McCain voted against the tax cuts. You can say "my opponent voted against X legislation, and thus, is against kids/crime/terrorism/etc". However, you need to get to the heart of why they voted against the legislation. It could very well be an "all or nothing" in the bill. There could have been something in the bill that was hidden that the opponent didn't agree with. Many legislators voted for the PATRIOT act, even though they saw things that troubled them. There was immense pressure to get the bill passed and it was a knee jerk reaction to 9/11.
The same can be said for any bill that's voted one way or another. To simply accuse McCain of voting against tax cuts without providing an explanation shows that you are willing to stoop to misleading statements to get ahead. I need a straight shooter in a leader, and if you can't provide it, then you shouldn't be in office.
The same holds true for Democrats who tried to mislead the American public over Bush's veto of the SCHIP program. They tried to pull the heart strings of people by saying "it was for the kids" and that Bush was somehow trying to deny health insurance to children. The problem with their argument was that he wasn't. He said many times that he was willing to expand the program, but not to the level that Democrats wanted because it wasn't in the budget and it would include people who shouldn't be included, such as adults and people who make a decent amount of money.
Travis
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